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Illustrator Marius De Zayas landed a job making caricatures for the New York Evening World when he came to the USA from Mexico in 1907, fleeing dictator Porfirio Diaz. He held solo shows at Gallery 291 and built a successful career as an artist, writer, art dealer, and publisher.

Temperature changes, air polution, and soluble salts can attack brick, an otherwise highly durable building material. Weathering over time, much like the rest of us, they will return eventually to the clay from which they were made.

UpdateGAO is an ongoing initiative to revise Grove’s articles in collaboration with their original authors, yielding updates to reflect recent developments and new scholarship. Have you contributed to Grove and want to update your article(s)? Let us know.

Grove Art continues a major initiative to revise and expand Grove’s content on Latin American art and architecture. Led by Tom Cummins at Harvard University, this project includes scholarship on topics from the Pre-Columbian period to present day.